Mission Barbarossa - PC

Great addition to the Blitzkrieg game. There are some differences. AI is tougher. It will use mortars to punish you severely, even your armor. I always did think the original wasted mortars as totally useless. I didn't even use them except in a defensive position and expected to lose them quick. Their range was equal to the infantry. Here they are devastating, accurate, and if they have infantry spotters they will track you with no mercy. My little infantry killer Panzer II I love to do armed recon with is in jeopardy if I get impudent.Snipers are less godlike and will be killed again if you get cocky, no binocular command, just a straight extended sight line. The real bonus is a two man team of spotters w bino's (Russians have them too so find and kill with prejudice). And that brings me to sight lines. They are Really! extended. Often to even off the screen and you have to scroll over to see what your Pz III is shooting at instead of the infantry right in front of them. While annoying at times it can pay off. They might see an AT gun I didn't pick up on that was exposed as I moved him up and see it as the greater threat that it is. AI is much more advanced-good and some bad. Your armor will take off at the drop of the hat and get themselves killed. Setting up an attack spoiled by Johnny Stupid's charge unto death sucks. Setting up an attack I entrench my armor at each stop while in overwatch when scouting (not hold-isn't consistent). Move your dug in tank now you idiot haha. I know armor is all about aggression but please.Success is rewarded with reinforcements as in the real blitzkrieg tactics. I read an account of a German staff officer in my US Army Combined Arms Warfare Late/Modern from my days at BNOC armor school saying the lightning war name came from how the movement looked on a map, a jagged lightning bolt shape bypassing strong points not the lightning speed though there is that too.Sounds are upgraded. Almost sounds like a mod it is so different. Screaming arty and shell casings hitting the ground for example. Really pretty good.Artillery is king here as in WWII. Arty killed more than bullets. Neutralizing it is a prime objective. You can flirt around the edges and inflict casualties even get lucky and make some good kills but you will pay on a full out attack if you don't use air, counter battery, something to answer that devastating arty. Shoot and scoot works but enemy counter batt is quick and accurate 3-4 rounds max and start hooking up those trucks and pray.Currently stuck on mission 7 I think it is. I have 2 Pz III's and a Pz III H model (wonderful tank) and 2 KV1's to kill. As the Germans said on the eastern front: Aint fair man! I provoked one of them twice to come across a bridge into a ambush and nothing could kill it, even my Fw 190 ground attack failed. They hit it once and Ivan called fighter support on another. I used everything with infantry even a captured 76mm field gun, another killer. It killed everything and roamed over to my arty and killed it too. Tough b*stard. It was kind of funny KV1 & my 4+ squads of infantry all jammed up on little wooden bridge and all my armor fanned out in position/range for the kill-the perfect fail. Went beyond aggravating into ridiculous. Took a break and going at it again now. Coax him onto the bridge and destroy it maybe-mines. Is Win7 instability involved here? One in a while strange things happen. Small ones.Air power is more responsive and important too. This is a bit twitchy on Win7 but totally useable.What currently works on 7 for me:BlitzkriegBlitzkrieg Burning HorizonBarbarossaAnd not:Blitzkrieg Rolling Thunder. The copy protection disk check scheme failed on Vista too. If I bought this new, did they remove that wasted bit of garbage protection ware? Let me know if they did.I'll add Homeworld 2 here. Such a great game that is not that old and is part of the Things Killed by Win7. Microsoft you are bad. New versions often so we have to buy new stuff. You are stinkish. Stoopid monkeys. Gates is no hero to me.Glad to buy this new and it works. Harder but if you liked the first one you will enjoy it even with the changes. There is not much coming out these days of this type of game is why I like it too. Almost reduced to a squad or company level game in scope with how it plays.Edit: I did indeed lure onto and then destroy the bridge. Only to find more KV-1's, but I avoided them and did complete the mission. Stability decreases a bit as the game progresses to later missions. Still liked it.

Very challenging to play and addicting. The only reason I don't give it a 5 star rating is that it has crashed on me a couple of times. Some scenarios are very hard to beat even in the easy mode.

It did not work in my windows 7 64

I enjoyed the series but unfortunately a bug has made one of the missions impossible to finish. Unfortunately there are no patches available, trhat I can find.

If you liked Blitzkreig, but have played it to death and are looking for a new challenge, you might enjoy Mission Barbarossa. But beware: it's much harder than the original. Even on easy, it seems like the AI is better, the missions are designed to be harder, and it seems harder to eliminate enemies, especially if they are in a building.

Absolutely amazing expansion to an already great game- while some may not anticipate the enhanced degree of realism and difficulty, this is a go-to expansion to the game that really brings it to the next level, with expanded weapon ranges, accuracy, and FoW and sight modelling

works great, came on time. what can I say !

When it came (which it came early) the package was in neatly packed and when i opened it the box was in excellent condition. the game it self is really nice its a really nice addon to the blitzkrieg game. :)